Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras (cltampa.com)

×3.70 86 | 131 points by UmYeahNo 5 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kimi K3 built a Windows XP in browser (kimi.site)

×1.90 74 | 55 points by boveyking 4 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making' (daringfireball.net)

×3.80 66 | 53 points by robenkleene 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Opus 5 (anthropic.com)

×6.49 47 #74 | 1740 points by alvis 1 day ago | 1265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Know before you go. New feature added (bribes.fyi)

×3.76 56 | 69 points by neverenderr 7 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wind turbine is being used to produce zero-carbon "green ammonia" fertilizer (energiesmedia.com)

×1.27 45 | 83 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models (cnbc.com)

×3.69 38 | 646 points by louiereederson 1 day ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Politician reads AI prompt during assembly (youtube.com)

×4.05 42 | 66 points by root-parent 10 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall (wsj.com)

×3.84 37 | 315 points by JumpCrisscross 23 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes Was Murdered in Ecuador (dropsitenews.com)

×3.88 35 | 74 points by hn_acker 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank limits (coindesk.com)

×1.82 34 | 59 points by paulpauper 10 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story (theguardian.com)

×4.27 29 | 523 points by rwmj 1 day ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tile's security is so bad it's a feature for stalkers (adafruit.com)

×2.76 32 #50 | 146 points by sambellll 8 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality (stanford.edu)

×2.52 39 #49 | 57 points by pod_krad 3 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who does Anubis actually stop? (fzakaria.com)

×1.97 32 #66 | 43 points by type0 5 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Star Axis (wikipedia.org)

×1.22 38 #68 | 17 points by Thevet 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's getting harder to focus every day (glyphack.com)

×4.24 23 | 760 points by peykar 1 day ago | 404 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey (thehindu.com)

×4.10 21 | 515 points by rootkea 1 day ago | 417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras (theguardian.com)

×4.13 25 #34 | 202 points by bookofjoe 7 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple seeks U.S. approval to buy memory chips from blacklisted CXMT (fortune.com)

×3.09 23 #67 | 33 points by walterbell 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse? (ptrchm.com)

×5.44 18 #78 | 842 points by pchm 1 day ago | 634 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page (hhh.hn)

×2.56 18 #85 | 635 points by hhh 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brazil denies visas to U.S. officials who aimed to impugn electoral system (washingtonpost.com)

×3.36 28 | 7 points by matheusmoreira 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Silicon Valley Splits over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I (nytimes.com)

×2.89 30 | 6 points by dkobia 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What livestream do you keep open in a tab?

×1.54 20 | 37 points by missmoss 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach (cam.ac.uk)

×3.64 17 #56 | 565 points by agnishom 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GNU Hurd gets 9pfs, OpenNTPD, dynamic /dev/ entries, and more (osnews.com)

×1.76 27 #42 | 23 points by iamnothere 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch (arstechnica.com)

×2.90 15 #79 | 674 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales (dbos.dev)

×1.76 15 | 360 points by KraftyOne 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught (techcrunch.com)

×2.35 20 #89 | 11 points by sbulaev 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Did They Ghost You? (didtheyghostyou.com)

×3.38 18 #19 | 310 points by mooreds 6 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed (karimjedda.com)

×2.18 15 #55 | 117 points by kiyanwang 11 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB (kitsumed.github.io)

×3.81 14 #26 | 882 points by shscs911 19 hours ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld (itch.io)

×1.87 14 #62 | 244 points by g0xA52A2A 19 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI (wsj.com)

×5.09 12 | 59 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 13 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ARC-AGI Leaderboard (arcprize.org)

×1.33 11 #76 | 168 points by rzk 20 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AMD publishes machine-readable ISA so frontier models can write its GPU kernels (theregister.com)

×2.16 13 #88 | 13 points by logickkk1 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard (artificialanalysis.ai)

×2.41 10 #84 | 365 points by aarondong 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Phaistos Disc (wikipedia.org)

×2.08 14 | 4 points by hypertexthero 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kenmore Air crash: How civilians 'saved the day' (seattletimes.com)

×2.15 10 #82 | 9 points by ynac 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everything Is a File (wikipedia.org)

×2.13 13 | 4 points by iacguy 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Possible invasive species superspreader event near Strait of Hormuz (abcnews.com)

×2.87 14 #22 | 22 points by russfink 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Dark Night of Mathematics (kirwinhampshire.substack.com)

×2.43 6 #32 | 174 points by rmdmphilosopher 10 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turn And Face The Strange (fly.io)

×2.91 6 #12 | 148 points by subarctic 5 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
George Hotz talk at AMD Advancing AI 2026 [video] (youtube.com)

×1.89 7 | 4 points by chrsw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models (claude.com)

×1.80 5 #9 | 173 points by mellosouls 5 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scanwheel is a drum style mechanical television you can build yourself (github.com/AncientJames)

×1.26 4 #70 | 65 points by tobr 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf] (github.com/demo-zexuan)

×2.14 5 #7 | 89 points by oliculipolicula 3 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quantum internet leaves the lab (northwestern.edu)

×2.62 4 | 6 points by hhs 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flux 3 (bfl.ai)

×2.66 2 | 568 points by ThouYS 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment (knaup.me)

×2.41 2 #15 | 317 points by tknaup 11 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage (ieee.org)

×1.37 2 #5 | 131 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The South Carolina town in turmoil over a $545,000 email phishing scam (msn.com)

×1.67 3 | 3 points by MilnerRoute 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???